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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1829663, member: 57463"]... or for a seller to sell...</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, I agree at most of the common levels. The problem centers on fraud. If it is wrong to sell something for what it is not, is it unethical to buy something for what it is not?</p><p><br /></p><p>In my heart of hearts, I believe that these discussions go nowhere because we all just post a paragraph or two or three of personal opinions. No one really dissects the problem to investigate it from all aspects and angles. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Among the many facets is that from our public (or parochial) educations and from the common culture, we inherit a wide and deep burden of mistaken ideas. It seems that if the grocer sells a can of peaches, the consumer wanted to eat peaches. Maybe they are making a pie to sell to someone else. It is a fundamental truth of economics (at least as understood by the Austrian school) that every so-called "finished" product is just an <b>input</b> for someone else's production. In other words, the seller might have absolutely no idea what the buyer actually is seeking.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a Morgan dollar with a hole in it to put on a key ring with a USB drive so that when I used the computers at school, I would not walk off and leave the drive. </p><p>Who knew?</p><p><br /></p><p>So, someone sells a coin because of its nice grade and the buyer wants it for its repunched Mint mark. Who's to say?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1829663, member: 57463"]... or for a seller to sell... Yeah, I agree at most of the common levels. The problem centers on fraud. If it is wrong to sell something for what it is not, is it unethical to buy something for what it is not? In my heart of hearts, I believe that these discussions go nowhere because we all just post a paragraph or two or three of personal opinions. No one really dissects the problem to investigate it from all aspects and angles. Among the many facets is that from our public (or parochial) educations and from the common culture, we inherit a wide and deep burden of mistaken ideas. It seems that if the grocer sells a can of peaches, the consumer wanted to eat peaches. Maybe they are making a pie to sell to someone else. It is a fundamental truth of economics (at least as understood by the Austrian school) that every so-called "finished" product is just an [B]input[/B] for someone else's production. In other words, the seller might have absolutely no idea what the buyer actually is seeking. I bought a Morgan dollar with a hole in it to put on a key ring with a USB drive so that when I used the computers at school, I would not walk off and leave the drive. Who knew? So, someone sells a coin because of its nice grade and the buyer wants it for its repunched Mint mark. Who's to say?[/QUOTE]
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